About Bridgewater  

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors.  

Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting-edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.  

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment to excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.  

Explore more information about Bridgewater on our website here.  

Our Culture  

Our culture is anchored in excellence, meaning constant improvement, and it is deeply tied to our mission. Because markets are objective, competitive, and getting smarter everyday, we need to keep rapidly improving to have any chance of beating them. Truth is our most essential tool for engaging with the markets and constantly improving because once you know what's true about your problems and opportunities, you can determine how to get better. Valuing truth means being transparent about your decision-making and mistakes, giving and receiving feedback with humility, and fighting for the best answers over hierarchy, ego, or self-interest. Operating this way is hard – it's only possible because we build meaning in our work and relationships. This meaning comes from the audacity of the mission, and the joy of working alongside people who make you a better version of yourself. The culture, like Bridgewater itself, is always evolving. In 1997 our founder Ray Dalio wrote down his lessons, starting with a Philosophy Statement which remains our foundation. This later evolved into a set of 300+ Principles. In 2022, when Ray transitioned the company, we re-underwrote several of those principles and evolved others, with a specific focus on Meritocracy. Today the culture sits, alongside our people, as our most important edge. When we get it right, it’s the engine that powers everything else. 

About the Team 

The goal of the Asia Solutions team is to continue our growth down the journey of being the premier investment management firm in the region. This entails developing great investment strategies reflecting our expertise, generating alpha in the markets, researching and publishing our understanding of the macroeconomic environment, and designing solutions to help our clients invest across the region. 

Bridgewater has a long history as an asset manager in Asia. It started when our founder, Ray Dalio, first visited China in 1984, and we have been managing money for sophisticated institutional investors in the Asia-Pacific region ever since our first Chinese client invested in 1993. Trading Asian markets has always been a core part of our global macro investment strategies, and several Asian economies feature prominently in the research we have published on debt cycles and the changing world order. We opened our first foreign office in China, and in 2018 we launched our first China-focused investment strategy, which has since grown to become the largest wholly foreign-owned private fund in China. 

About Your Role  

As a Research Associate on the Asia Solutions team, you’re on a mission to understand the fundamental drivers of markets and turn that understanding into systematic trading strategies and investment advice for our clients. You’ll help expand our understanding of how economies work and distill that understanding into systematic trading strategies. You’ll be wrestling with questions like: How do economic actors behave and what drives their actions? and How can we systematically monitor and predict their actions?  

Through your focus on China’s onshore equities, you’ll be expected to cultivate a high level of expertise in Asian markets, enriching the team’s knowledge of industry and company fundamentals, staying attuned to regulatory changes, and independently formulating investment ideas within the region. 

You will be a click for the role if you: 

• Have deep interest and experience in conducting systematic fundamental research focused on Chinese equities and translating key learnings into systematic investment ideas 
• Can produce in-depth research coverage on publicly traded companies within China and Hong Kong, and develop logical, comprehensive frameworks for the on-going assessment of industry and company fundamentals 
• Are excited to help develop alpha strategies within a multi-asset macro portfolio, conducting systematic analyses on fast-moving market actions to deliver strong risk-adjusted returns 
• Can provide perceptions on what is going on in the world, investigate them to discover timeless & universal linkages, and connect those to portfolio investment impact 
• Are excited about being on a fast-moving, entrepreneurial team with high ambitions for impact across strategies 
• Can take abstract concepts and turn them into concrete solutions that solve challenging problems in markets and economies 
• Thrive in a deeply intellectual environment where truthful and transparent communication ensure that the best ideas win out 
• Independently drive initiatives to improve the quality, reliability, and efficiency of our systems 

Minimum Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree with strong academic record 
• 2+ years of experience in a relevant field (markets / investing, quantitative analysis, etc) 
• Fluency in Mandarin 
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and synthesizing skills; experience working with and analyzing large datasets 
• Strong familiarity with Chinese accounting standards (CAS) and experience in using WIND 
• High integrity and Bridgewater culture fit 

Preferred Requirements 

A high degree of proficiency with Python & Excel; Scala nice to have 

Physical Requirements  

The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week at our New York City campus.  

Compensation 

The expected annual base salary for this position is $150,000-$300,000. The total compensation package includes variable compensation in the form of a discretionary target bonus. 

Interested in learning more about working at Bridgewater? Hear about the experiences of our employees here. 

Why Choose Bridgewater?  

It takes all types to make Bridgewater great. We seek a diverse group of innovative thinkers and push them to engage in rigorous and thoughtful inquiry. We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development. We strive to provide you opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential. 

One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits. Explore more information about Bridgewater’s benefits on our website here. 

Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations. 

This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment. Please note that we do provide immigration sponsorship for this position. 

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer 

About Bridgewater  

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors.  

Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting-edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.  

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment to excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.  

Explore more information about Bridgewater on our website here.  

Our Culture  

Our culture is anchored in excellence, meaning constant improvement, and it is deeply tied to our mission. Because markets are objective, competitive, and getting smarter everyday, we need to keep rapidly improving to have any chance of beating them. Truth is our most essential tool for engaging with the markets and constantly improving because once you know what's true about your problems and opportunities, you can determine how to get better. Valuing truth means being transparent about your decision-making and mistakes, giving and receiving feedback with humility, and fighting for the best answers over hierarchy, ego, or self-interest. Operating this way is hard – it's only possible because we build meaning in our work and relationships. This meaning comes from the audacity of the mission, and the joy of working alongside people who make you a better version of yourself. The culture, like Bridgewater itself, is always evolving. In 1997 our founder Ray Dalio wrote down his lessons, starting with a Philosophy Statement which remains our foundation. This later evolved into a set of 300+ Principles. In 2022, when Ray transitioned the company, we re-underwrote several of those principles and evolved others, with a specific focus on Meritocracy. Today the culture sits, alongside our people, as our most important edge. When we get it right, it’s the engine that powers everything else. 

About the Team 

This role sits in our Asia Strategies department. The goal of Asia Strategies is to continue our growth down the journey of being the premier investment management firm in the region. This entails developing great investment strategies reflecting our expertise, generating alpha in the markets, researching and publishing our understanding of the macroeconomic environment, and designing solutions to help our clients invest across the region. 

About Your Role  

We are seeking a Quantitative Developer to join a PM-led pod focused on systematic macro and long/short equity strategies in APAC. This is a hands-on, embedded role, working directly with the portfolio manager and researchers in a tight-knit, fast-paced environment. You will have consistent exposure to senior investment leadership and play a central role in translating research ideas into robust, production-ready, systems.

Unlike high-frequency or execution-driven QD roles, this position emphasizes (1) research enablement (2) model implementation (3) data pipelines (4) portfolio construction (5) oversight. You will sit at the intersection of research, engineering, and portfolio management, with direct ownership over the tools and systems that drive investment decisions. 

You will drive the following responsibilities:  

• Research Enablement & Implementation  

• Partner closely with the PM and researchers to translate alpha ideas into scalable, production-quality models. 

• Maintain and evolve our research & production environments – from signal development to portfolio construction & risk management. 

• Incorporate AI/Machine Learning technologies into the team’s research and investment process. 

• Data & Infrastructure 

• Efficiently engineer and assess datasets for alpha potential. Work across large, unstructured, and alternative datasets relevant to APAC markets.  

• Ensure data quality, reproducibility, and performance across research and live environments 

• Portfolio Construction & Analytics 

• Develop tools to monitor portfolio exposures, risk, performance attribution, and signal behavior. 

• Partner with the PM on discretionary overlays, stress testing, and scenario analysis. 

• Work across trade execution and portfolio implementation teams to manage our portfolios.  

• Collaboration 

• Work across our data engineers, developers, and researchers to evolve our shared research platform and data ecosystem. 

• Contribute to improving productivity, tooling, and research velocity within the pod. 

Interested in learning more about working at Bridgewater? Hear about the experiences of our employees here. 

You will be a click for the role if you: 

• Have a passion for financial markets and systematic investing. 

• Have a drive to build the backbone that directly impacts P&L. 

• Have a drive to understand the fundamental cause and effect linkages that drive markets, companies, and economies and translate that into a systematic process. 

• Are intellectually curious and creative 

• Are proactive with a strong sense of urgency, desire to drive impact, and are comfortable working in a fast-paced environment 

• Are relentless in their pursuit of learning and development 

• Are non-hierarchical, willing to challenge the status quo, and seek to give and receive feedback openly (even when challenging) 

• Are passionate about compounding understanding 

• Are experimental with a drive to adopt new technologies and methods 

Minimum Qualifications 

• 1–4 years of experience in a quantitative development, research engineering, or hybrid QD/QR role at a hedge fund, asset manager, or bank. Experience in systematic equities or macro is a plus. 

• Strong programming skills in Python (experience writing production-quality, maintainable code). 

• Willingness to expand your toolkit to adapt to our Scala driven production stack.  

• Experience designing, documenting, and scaling high-performance systems. 

• Strong desire to work with new development assistant technologies to drive productivity.  

• Experience working with databases and data platforms (SQL; Snowflake or similar) 

• Solid foundation in statistics and applied mathematics, particularly time-series and cross-sectional analysis. Familiarity with factor models, signal pipelines, and portfolio optimization frameworks 

• Experience supporting or implementing systematic investment strategies 

• Experience with trading in Asian markets is preferred including (but not limited to) familiarity with Asia market's distinctive characteristics such as stamp cost, financing, and no short constraints.  

• Comfort and desire to work across research and engineering contexts rather than a narrowly scoped infra role 

Physical Requirements  

• The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week at our New York City campus or in our Singapore office. 

Why Choose Bridgewater? 

It takes all types to make Bridgewater great. We seek a diverse group of innovative thinkers and push them to engage in rigorous and thoughtful inquiry. We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development. We strive to provide you with opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential.  

Compensation 

• The expected annual base salary for this position is SGD 252,700-SGD 315,800. The total compensation package includes variable compensation in the form of a discretionary target bonus. 

One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits. Explore more information about Bridgewater’s benefits on our website here. 

Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations.  

This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment. Please note that we do provide immigration sponsorship for this position.  

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer  

About Bridgewater 

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors. Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work – using cutting edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles. 

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture. 

Explore more information about Bridgewater on our website here. 

Our Culture 

Our culture is anchored in excellence, meaning constant improvement, and it is deeply tied to our mission. Because markets are objective, competitive, and getting smarter everyday, we need to keep rapidly improving to have any chance of beating them. Truth is our most essential tool for engaging with the markets and constantly improving because once you know what's true about your problems and opportunities, you can determine how to get better. Valuing truth means being transparent about your decision-making and mistakes, giving and receiving feedback with humility, and fighting for the best answers over hierarchy, ego, or self-interest. Operating this way is hard – it's only possible because we build meaning in our work and relationships. This meaning comes from the audacity of the mission, and the joy of working alongside people who make you a better version of yourself. The culture, like Bridgewater itself, is always evolving. In 1997 our founder Ray Dalio wrote down his lessons, starting with a Philosophy Statement which remains our foundation. This later evolved into a set of 300+ Principles. In 2022, when Ray transitioned the company, we re-underwrote several of those principles and evolved others, with a specific focus on Meritocracy. Today the culture sits, alongside our people, as our most important edge. When we get it right, it’s the engine that powers everything else.

About Bridgewater’s Asia Strategies Team 

The goal of the Asia Strategies team is to create industry-leading portfolios and investment thinking in Asia, helping investors navigate the changing geopolitical and macroeconomic paradigm. This entails growing deep regional expertise, generating alpha in Asian markets, researching and publishing our understanding of the macroeconomic environment, and designing portfolio solutions to help our clients invest across the region.  

Bridgewater has a long history as an asset manager in Asia. It started when our founder, Ray Dalio, first visited China in 1984, and we have been trading Asian markets since 1992. Asian markets have always been a core part of our global macro investment strategies, and Asian economies feature prominently in the research we have published on debt cycles and the changing world order. Bridgewater has offices in only two places – the US and Asia – reflecting the region’s strategic importance. Our first Asia-focused fund, launched in 2018, is now among the largest private funds in China. 

About Your Role  

As a Commodities Research Associate on our Asia Strategies team, you will help Bridgewater invest in commodity markets, with a strong focus on agricultural commodities, based on a unique and differentiated view of both supply-demand fundamentals and Chinese market dynamics. You will build deep expertise in how agricultural prices – and shifts in those prices – impact broader commodity markets and macroeconomic forces such as growth and inflation. 

You will drive the following responsibilities: 

• Partner with our investors to research questions on commodity markets and commodity-producing companies, with a specific focus on agriculturals, and turn that understanding into systematic trading strategies and investment advice for our clients 
• Help build, maintain, and consistently refine commodity balance sheets; acquire and organize the production and consumption of trade data needed to support those balance sheets 
• Manage and update key building blocks of understanding including data, models, and visualizations 
• Monitor and raise observations about new or changing conditions in the world 
• Access data and ingest them in a systematic way (strong technical aptitude and coding experience is a plus) 

We are looking for candidates with the following minimum qualifications: 

• 4+ years of experience at a commodities trading house, research group, hedge fund, or merchant 
• Proven track record trading agricultural commodities in onshore China (soybeans, rapeseed, palm oil, corn), ideally also with experience in softs (sugar, cotton) 
• Fluency in Mandarin 
• Strong work ethic, strong attention to detail, and demonstrated ability to achieve results and drive projects to completion 
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and organize time effectively in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment 

Physical Requirements
The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week. Candidates can be based in our New York City, Shanghai, or Singapore campuses.

Why Choose Bridgewater? 

It takes all types to make Bridgewater great. We seek a diverse group of innovative thinkers and push them to engage in rigorous and thoughtful inquiry. We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development. We strive to provide you opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential. 

Compensation and Benefits 

The expected annual base salary for this position is $125,000-$250,000. The total compensation package includes variable compensation in the form of a discretionary target bonus. 

Interested in learning more about working at Bridgewater? Hear about the experiences of our employees here. 

One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits. Explore more information about Bridgewater’s benefits on our website here.    

Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations. 

This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment. Please note that we do provide immigration sponsorship for this position. 

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer 

About Bridgewater  

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors.  

Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting-edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.  

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment to excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.  

Explore more information about Bridgewater on our website here.  

Our Culture  

Our culture is anchored in excellence, meaning constant improvement, and it is deeply tied to our mission. Because markets are objective, competitive, and getting smarter everyday, we need to keep rapidly improving to have any chance of beating them. Truth is our most essential tool for engaging with the markets and constantly improving because once you know what's true about your problems and opportunities, you can determine how to get better. Valuing truth means being transparent about your decision-making and mistakes, giving and receiving feedback with humility, and fighting for the best answers over hierarchy, ego, or self-interest. Operating this way is hard – it's only possible because we build meaning in our work and relationships. This meaning comes from the audacity of the mission, and the joy of working alongside people who make you a better version of yourself. The culture, like Bridgewater itself, is always evolving. In 1997 our founder Ray Dalio wrote down his lessons, starting with a Philosophy Statement which remains our foundation. This later evolved into a set of 300+ Principles. In 2022, when Ray transitioned the company, we re-underwrote several of those principles and evolved others, with a specific focus on Meritocracy. Today the culture sits, alongside our people, as our most important edge. When we get it right, it’s the engine that powers everything else. 

About the Team 

This role sits in our Asia Strategies department. The goal of Asia Strategies is to continue our growth down the journey of being the premier investment management firm in the region. This entails developing great investment strategies reflecting our expertise, generating alpha in the markets, researching and publishing our understanding of the macroeconomic environment, and designing solutions to help our clients invest across the region. 

About Your Role  

We are seeking a Quantitative Researcher to join a PM-led pod focused on systematic macro and long/short equity strategies in APAC. You will work alongside the PM in a tight knit and fast paced environment with consistent exposure to a Bridgewater CIO. Your primary focus will be on alpha research with responsibilities along all aspects of the process from idea generation to data discovery, research and analysis, testing, portfolio optimization, and implementation. 

You will drive the following responsibilities:  

• Research & Development - Drive a systematic research process end to end including idea generation, data modeling, research/analysis, implementation, and industrialization. 

• Oversight & Monitoring – Continuously evolve our systematic oversight processes to understand drivers of risk, return, and views. Generate ideas to improve existing signals. Contribute ideas for discretionary trades and overlays to the portfolio. 

• Discovery – Identify and assess new datasets to identify their merit in our investment process. Follow and look to implement the latest developments in academic research. Experiment with new technologies to improve both our investment process and research and development environment. 

• Collaboration – Work across our data engineers, developers, and researchers to evolve our research platform and data ecosystem. Engage with the broader Asia strategies team to share observations and generate ideas. 

Interested in learning more about working at Bridgewater? Hear about the experiences of our employees here. 

You will be a click for the role if you: 

• Have a passion for financial markets 

• Have a drive to understand the fundamental cause and effect linkages that drive markets, companies, and economies. 

• Are intellectually curious and creative 

• Are proactive with a strong sense of urgency, desire to drive impact, and are comfortable working in a fast-paced environment 

• Are relentless in their pursuit of learning and development 

• Are non-hierarchical, willing to challenge the status quo, and seek to give and receive feedback openly (even when challenging) 

• Are passionate about compounding understanding 

• Are experimental with a drive to adopt new technologies and methods 

Minimum Qualifications 

• 1-4 years of work experience in quantitative research at a hedge fund, asset manager, or bank. Experience in systematic equities a plus. 

• Strong mathematical and statistical modeling skills (both time series and cross-sectional analysis) 

• Demonstrated proficiency in statistical languages (Python or R) and experience with database programming languages and environments (SQL and Snowflake) 

• Willingness to expand your toolkit to adapt to our Scala driven production stack.   

• Strong desire to work with new development assistant technologies to drive productivity.   

• Experience working with large, diverse, and alternative datasets 

• Experience working with factor models (both externally sourced and internally developed) 

• Experience with trading in Asian markets is preferred including (but not limited to) familiarity with Asia market's distinctive characteristics such as stamp cost, financing, and no short constraints. 

Physical Requirements  

• The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week at our New York City campus or in our Singapore office. 

Why Choose Bridgewater? 

It takes all types to make Bridgewater great. We seek a diverse group of innovative thinkers and push them to engage in rigorous and thoughtful inquiry. We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development. We strive to provide you opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential. 

Compensation 

• The expected annual base salary for this position is $250,000-$300,000. The total compensation package includes variable compensation in the form of a discretionary target bonus.  

One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits. Explore more information about Bridgewater’s benefits on our website here. 

Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations.  

This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment. Please note that we do provide immigration sponsorship for this position.  

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer   

About Bridgewater  

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors.  

Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting-edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.  

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment to excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.  

Explore more information about Bridgewater on our website here.  

Our Culture  

Our culture is anchored in excellence, meaning constant improvement, and it is deeply tied to our mission. Because markets are objective, competitive, and getting smarter everyday, we need to keep rapidly improving to have any chance of beating them. Truth is our most essential tool for engaging with the markets and constantly improving because once you know what's true about your problems and opportunities, you can determine how to get better. Valuing truth means being transparent about your decision-making and mistakes, giving and receiving feedback with humility, and fighting for the best answers over hierarchy, ego, or self-interest. Operating this way is hard – it's only possible because we build meaning in our work and relationships. This meaning comes from the audacity of the mission, and the joy of working alongside people who make you a better version of yourself. The culture, like Bridgewater itself, is always evolving. In 1997 our founder Ray Dalio wrote down his lessons, starting with a Philosophy Statement which remains our foundation. This later evolved into a set of 300+ Principles. In 2022, when Ray transitioned the company, we re-underwrote several of those principles and evolved others, with a specific focus on Meritocracy. Today the culture sits, alongside our people, as our most important edge. When we get it right, it’s the engine that powers everything else. 

About the Team 

This role sits in our Asia Strategies department, whose goal is to continue our growth down the journey of being the premier investment management firm in Asia. This entails developing great investment strategies reflecting our expertise, generating alpha in the markets, researching and publishing our understanding of the macroeconomic environment, and designing solutions to help our clients invest across the region. 

About Your Role  

We are seeking a Data Engineer to join a PM-led pod focused on systematic macro and long/short equity strategies in APAC. This is a hands-on, embedded role working directly with the portfolio manager, quantitative researchers, and quantitative developers in a fast-paced investment environment.

Unlike centralized data platform roles, this position is deeply integrated with the investment process. You will own the end-to-end data lifecycle that powers alpha research, portfolio construction, and live trading – from sourcing and ingestion to profiling, validation, transformation, and delivery into research and production systems. You will collaborate with our quantitative researchers, developers and portfolio managers and have direct impact on the data and systems that drive investment decisions. 

You will drive the following responsibilities:  

• Identify and assess new datasets to identify their merit in our investment process.  

• Build and maintain a catalog of datasets/vendors by attending data conferences, reading whitepapers, and taking introductory calls.  

• Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines supporting systematic macro and long/short equity strategies. 

• Partner closely with researchers and quantitative developers to ensure data is research-ready, well-documented, and reproducible across simulation and live environments. 

• Profile and interrogate datasets to understand distributions, coverage gaps, stability over time, and structural breaks. 

• Implement data quality checks, anomaly detection, and monitoring to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and completeness of production datasets. 

• Design and maintain our data ontology and schemas 

• Work across a variety of datasets including traditional datasets (fundamentals, market data, security master, etc.) to large alternative datasets.  

• Work with shared data engineering and platform teams to evolve the broader data ecosystem while maintaining pod-level ownership and agility. 

• Contribute to improvements in tooling, standards, and best practices that increase research velocity and system reliability 

• Work with the data vendors on data quality and new features that will benefit our investment process. 

You will be a click for the role if you: 

• Care deeply about building high-quality data that drives decision-making and directly impacts outcomes. 

• Are motivated by owning critical datasets and pipelines end-to-end, and take pride in correctness, reliability, and durability. 

• Enjoy working in real-world data environments where inputs are messy, definitions evolve, and good judgment matters. 

• Are intellectually curious and enjoy interrogating data — understanding its structure, limitations, and behavior, not just moving it from point A to point B. 

• Are proactive with a strong sense of urgency, desire to drive impact, and are comfortable working in a fast-paced environment 

• Are relentless in their pursuit of learning and development 

• Are non-hierarchical, willing to challenge the status quo, and seek to give and receive feedback openly (even when challenging) 

• Are passionate about compounding understanding 

• Are experimental with a drive to adopt new technologies and methods 

Interested in learning more about working at Bridgewater? Hear about the experiences of our employees here. 

Minimum Qualifications 

• 1–5 years of experience as a Data Engineer or in a closely related role, either: embedded with systematic investment teams (hedge fund, asset manager, bank), or in a high-scale, data-intensive technology environment (e.g., consumer, payments, or platform companies). 

• Strong programming skills in Python and SQL; experience building production-quality, maintainable data pipelines. 

• Experience working with modern data platforms (e.g., Snowflake or similar cloud data warehouses). 

• Familiarity with distributed processing and workflow orchestration (e.g., Spark, Airflow, or equivalents). 

• Proven ability to reason about data correctness, lineage, versioning, and reproducibility in environments where data errors have material downstream impact. 

• Comfort using lightweight statistical analysis and data science techniques to assess data quality, coverage, and suitability for research use. 

• Demonstrated experience working with high-dimensional, messy, and evolving datasets, including financial market and reference data (e.g., prices, fundamentals, macro, corporate actions), or large-scale behavioral, transactional, or event-driven data with complex schemas and quality challenges. 

• Experience working with datasets spanning multiple geographies, where data sources, standards, and availability vary materially by region. Familiarity with APAC data sets & providers a plus. 

• Experience navigating APAC data realities, including jurisdiction-specific macro definitions, country-specific corporate structures, and uneven disclosure and historical coverage.  

• Familiarity with differences between global and local data sources, including gaps between English-language and local-language 

In addition, to succeed within our unique culture and work environment, individuals must demonstrate humility, innate curiosity, and openness to new ideas and approaches. Candidates must be driven, confident, and goal-oriented. All Bridgewater employees are expected to be honest, exceptionally direct, and eager to provide and receive objective feedback. Our employees constantly strive for self-improvement through feedback and self-reflection and are committed to the pursuit of excellence. 

Physical Requirements  

• The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week in our Singapore office. 

Why Choose Bridgewater? 

It takes all types to make Bridgewater great. We seek a diverse group of innovative thinkers and push them to engage in rigorous and thoughtful inquiry. We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development. We strive to provide you with opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential.  

Compensation Band 

• The expected annual base salary for this position is SGD 189,500-SGD 252,700. The total compensation package includes variable compensation in the form of a discretionary target bonus. 

One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits. Explore more information about Bridgewater’s benefits on our website here. 

Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations.  

This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment. Please note that we do provide immigration sponsorship for this position.  

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer